Countries with lots of unmarried young men are the most vulnerable to sudden upheavals - this is what fueled the Arab Spring.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
Oh, sweet cherry tree- how lovely your blossoms are. Spring brings joy to life.
I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.
For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same. But as the day progressed, the grayness receded like a mist, the sky’s white became more illumined from behind, then occasionally a patch...
I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire ...
True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.
She'd come running up the driveway and into the kitchen, bringing the spring morning behind her like a trail of hope.
She smiled. "How...cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.
All good things spring from Self-Love
I don't want to think about it, but I have to. Someone has to. I see the signs of spring and I weep...
Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?
I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
Dead my old fine hopes And dry my dreaming but still... Iris, blue each spring
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...
She could think of no other reason for this boy to continue to visit her if not to use her in some way.
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...
